(the) Road to the Deep East

Livedoor news gives us an interesting article. It looks it is not only male fans of girl idols that go desperate and do anything for the girls they love.

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3575612/

According to it, recently, the fans of some Johny's groups are becoming brutal and brutal. Until recently, there was a ususal Elvis-style performance in their concerts. Namely, a fan throws a towel to the boy she loves, and the boy idol picks up it and wipes the sweat off with it, and throw it back to the crowd.

First, as an adult man, I couldn't understand why this performance was popular... just stinky and sweaty towel from boys. But when I replace the sex conversely, I could understand. Certainly, it's nice performance. If I were in the same position, I'm sure I'll be oinking and sniffing it in the rest of my life. AKB48 should start this performance later. One towel for 10,000 yens.

... where am I standing now? Oh, Johnny's. However, this attractive performance is not being taken place in recent Johnny's concerts. Fan girls are crazed too much, and they sometimes interfere the show itself. Instead, they are just holding small round fans(uchiwa) with message. 'xx-kun!! Blew a kiss me!!' or something.

But some crazy...no, crazed fans can't be satisfied with these moderate way of cheering. Some evil fans writes curse the boys they hate. It was fierce when Kamenashi and Koizumi's scandal was covered. 'Betrayer!!' '亀死(kame-die!!)', or 'x' mark on his printed face.

(*It's off topic, but it's another cultural difference. 'x' mark sometimes means kiss in some countries, but in Japan, it means simply 'bad', 'wrong', or some other negative things, including death. So, please do not misunderstand, when you receive the scored answer paper from a young and attractive Japanese teacher. Even if there are lot of 'x' marks in red, there isn't the hope, and it just simply means that you are a hopeless student. )

Anyway, when I read the article until this point, I just thought, otakus are otakus. These behaviors are also seen among male fans of girl idols. I remember when Niigaki Risa of Morning Musume debuted, some crazy persons said to her at the concert, 'Niigaki Shi-ne!!', not shine, I mean, Shi(死)-ne(ね), be dead. These must be a karma of all otakus in the world, who devote themselves into something discarding everything. The more they love, the more they hate when they felt they are betrayed.

However, in the next chapter, I had to think about the difference of the gender.

In Takky-Tsubasa concert, one fan tried to pluck his pendant off him. In KAT-TUN concert, one fan tried to shoot Tanaka-kun with blowpipe dart. And at Takky's concert again, one fan calls herself Takky fan tried to stab him with a knife!!

Fortunately, in all cases, no one wasn't injured seriously... but what the heck is this?? I hadn't imagined there was a literary ninja fan among Johnny's fans.

Contrarily, as far as I know, in ancient days, there was an arrested high school student who planned to rape an idol at that time, but recently, I've never heard of the evil man who tried to kill the idol girl. I know some hello-project fand do onanie at concert hal, though.

It's a difference of love, or a difference of the gender. While men just worship the idol girls and just masturbate, women loves idol boys seriously, and try to have physical contact with them. This difference becomes clearer when a scandal of an idol boy/girl is covered. Male fans just curse the idol girls who betrayed them, but female fans try to curse the opponent of the idol boys who had stolen their idol.

Anyway, what we can learn from this article is, be careful when you visit an idol concert in Japan. In boy idols' concerts, blowpipes are aiming at you, and in girl idols' concerts, you may experience genuine bukkake in the home land of it. You may be shot, anyway. The wisest choice is, never being interested in them, and stay away from this culture.